Hidalgo HH

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 691-698
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ABSTRACT

Background: make emergency services of all places, centers where the quality, timeliness and readiness, is the bulwark of its members and the public be confident that attention wherever you need it and with much more reason remote areas of the metropolitan area. Emergency Medicine is currently not a recognized specialty in the region Chorotega. Methods: is a study of 194 days of statistical analysis of emergency department log Chief Nursing Abangares Health Area, Guanacaste, period of July 20, 2009 to January 30, 2010. Results: urgent care demand is growing daily. In the year (2009) observed a rise in demand an urgent care 510% (9609 visits) compared to 2004 (1883 queries), which is a urgent care demands 773 per 1000 inhabitants and a total 39893 consultations for urgent assistance in the year 2009. Conclusion: citizens have joined their patterns of health behaviors urgent and immediate assistance, resulting in an increase in patients seen daily that surpasses any other health care system, whether hospital service or primary care can reach easily saturation situations, being obliged in such cases to organizational responses such as Triagge, which generates both user dissatisfaction in health, having to attend the corresponding EBAIS attend them.

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